Friday saw a trip to Buxton’s Lee Wood Hotel for a board away day, lookingat a number of issues around future planning including a future vision for2012, thoughts around the forthcoming review of the management agreement andgovernance issues. I was only in attendance for the end of the morning session and theafternoon session, but the […]
Thursday evening saw a meeting of the High Peak Labour Party’s executivelooking at a number of issue’s including amendments to the current batch ofpolicy document’s and setting the agenda for the next GC meeting which willtake place at the end of the month. The majority of the amendments that we supported were suggested by some […]
Thursday afternoon saw a session as part of the council’s efforts to meetthe member development charter on reviewing existing training, identifyingnew training needs and starting along the way of developing individualdevelopment plans for the training needs of each councillor. An interesting session with a good mix of ‘new’ councillor’s from the lastelection along with several […]
Following the annual council meeting / first executive meeting of the newcouncil year, I have now been appointed as one of the five council nomineesto the board of High Peak Community Housing (taking over from JacquiWilkinson), and last Wednesday evening saw the occasion of my first boardmeeting. Clocking in at just over three and half […]
Last Tuesday evening saw this months meeting of the High Peak Labour Group. Various updates were made on pending/forthcoming meetings along with anupdate for those present on some of the recent discussions at the groupleaders meeting. Also raised were concerns over forthcoming plans which will most likely seetwo local funding / regeneration partnerships (SSP/RAZ) covering […]
Monday evening saw a meeting of the Environment Select Committee. Up fordiscussion were reports on the council's forthcoming tree strategy,environmental statement and an update on changes to the council's parks andenvironmental services department. The report on the Tree Strategy sought approval from the committee withregards to the seeking approval for the draft strategy before it […]
Next Monday (23rd June) sees a meeting of the Social Inclusion and CommunitySelect Committee which will consider amongst other business a report onestablishing a designated Public Places Orders for Glossop and Gamesley. Theorder which if approved would lead to drinking been banned on selectedstreets with the area follows on from similar orders been introduced in […]
As flagged up earlier BT are currently via the Council consulting on plansto remove a number of payphones across the area, with 7 within theGlossopdale Area flagged up for removal. The planning department has now advised that in order process and puttogether any responses to BT in regards to the plans, any objections orcomments must […]
Last Friday Tom Levitt MP, held a public meeting in Glossop on the theme ofPalestine which featured Husam Zomlot from the Palestinian GeneralDelegation. Tom started off the meeting with some comments and a slideshow from hisrecent visit along with other MP's to Palestine including particularreference to the village of Azzun which had just prior to […]
The review of Post Offices within the Greater Manchester and High Peak Areahas announced there will be no changes for the majority (99.2%) of postoffices users within the Greater Manchester and High Peak Area despite 67 outof a current total of 380 post offices across the area been scheduled forclosure. Within the High Peak the […]